Empirical departures from normative QCM occurred regularly prior to critical QCM.

Critical quantitative research has yet to summarize its empirical precursors.

The field should ask how critical QCM practices of the past inform CritQCM today.

This article provides three examples in neighborhood effects research of how anti-oppressive quantitative work existed prior to the emergence of QuantCrit, and asks how might the movement regard work of this type within its history of development? In these examples, anti-oppressive quantitative and computational methodological practices demonstrate empirical innovation to reveal Black marginalization and relative white privilege. Yet, little conceptualizing within extant literature addresses the anti-oppressive work (addressing racial and intersectional oppression foremost) that predated the broad recognition of QuantCrit or how this early work may have contributed to its ascent. Despite the existence of work that uses transformative quantitative and computational practices, the works of white supremacy rationalists appear in foundational QuantCrit scholarship as the primary motivation for the much-needed epistemic shift. My contention in this article is that as the field further defines the methods of QuantCrit research, perhaps it should endeavor to curate the history of earlier quantitative and computational methodological practices that were also advancing a liberatory science and anti-racism possibilities.

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